Maven Invest Portfolios

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Investment Lifeboat DrillsS&P500 - Peak to Trough

We have chosen to use the S&P500 to reflect market volatility as it's the largest stock market in the world.

Bear markets cannot be timed or anticipated, they're in effect random. What we can plan against is our reaction to them, which will be to do nothing and ride them out, the only 'strategy' that historically would have worked.

Dates of Market Peak

Dates of Market Trough

%Return

Duration

Market Peak

Market Trough

05/46

06/49

-30%

36.5 Months

19.3

13.6

08/56

10/57

-22%

14.5 Months

49.7

39.0

12/61

06/62

-28%

6.5 Months

72.6

52.3

02/66

10/66

-22%

8.0 Months

94.1

73.2

11/68

05/70

-36%

18.0 Months

108.4

69.3

01/73

10/74

-48%

20.5 Months

120.2

62.3

09/76

03/78

-19%

17.5 Months

107.8

86.9

11/80

08/82

-27%

20.5 Months

140.5

102.4

08/87

12/87

-34%

4.0 Months

336.8

223.9

07/90

10/90

-20%

3.0 Months

369.0

295.5

07/98

08/98

-19%

1.5 Months

1186.8

957.3

03/00

10/02

-49%

30.5 Months

1527.5

776.7

10/07

03/09

-57%

17.0 Months

1565.1

676.5

S&P 500 price at the end of 2017 - 2673There's no such thing as an average bear marketAverage duration = 15 monthsPeak to trough and back approx 40 monthsAverage decline = -31%